Natalie Quagliata Kupinski

As a family who has been in the food business for almost a century, we have seen a lot of changes. In 1920, my great-grandparents opened a grocery store and it looked very different from today's pre-packaged stores. There are many items that people are no longer interested in such as the huge block of cheese that sat atop the counter that actually had "worms" crawling through it; desirable and permitted then, not so popular now. Skate fish was an inexpensive stand-by years ago, it too fell out of fashion and now can be found on fine dining menus. Times change, tastes change, and you cater to your clients.

In 1967 my family jumped further into food and opened a restaurant called The Quagliata's White House. There were many more restaurants to follow, each geared to a different niche, all Italian, all delicious, and all based in family traditions and recipes.

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